Weapons_hot and Woodja51
While most certainly a lot of colleagues may agree rather silently with your outspoken assumptions, this is not solely a longhaul problem. On short- and mediumhaul the situation is very similar. However, the nature of short- and mediumhaul allows for a more quicker build-up of "hands-on" experience.
There was, while aviation was definately something different as it is today, the rule in the major field players manuals that the way to longhauls office chairs has to start on shorthaul and with a visit for some time on the mediumhaul fleet.
Things have changed and may not everywhere the same anymore.
Comming to the point of this, with the unease you mentioned in your post, would anyone expect to find the captain in bunk while crossing the most challenging part of the journey?
Guess not!
Let's wait for the boxes to tell us more.